I have a husband who adores me.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

I loved campaigning.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I love my books.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to turn children into gun enthusiasts before they are even old enough to buy a firearm of their own.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.

Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.

As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.

Although we can never fully repay our veterans, on Veterans Day we thank our veterans for their selflessness and commit to do what we can to improve the quality of life for our veterans and military families in communities across America.

There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.

We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.

We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.